The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-10-12

for 1888, intimates f.daiz9!ssnerica is dis
criminated against IN the awarding of
serarnment contracts for public works.
OK the 7th the acting Secretary of the
Navy received dispatch from Rear Ad-
miral Chandler, commanding the Asiatic
squadron, dated Nagasaki, Japan, Sep
tember 7, in which he says he will senu q
ship immediately to Nonage island of the
Caroline group to inves stigate the native
massacre Of Spaniards and protect Ameri-
can interests and missionaries in India.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the morning of the 4th Sophus Hess,
a German journalist, who came to this
country and to Davenport, Ia, in July
last, and who had recently gone into bus
mess there, hung himself in his room at Q
hotel in that city. 1t Is believed he had
expected a large sum OF money from some
source, and disappointment and failure to
get it caused the act. He was forty years
old.
THE New York Commercials Bulletins
fire record for September shows an aggre-
gate loss of $7,937, 300 against $780, 900 in
September, 1885, The total for the first
nine months Of the current year is 500, 1888,
500 against $sS, 100000 for the correspond
ing period of 1886
OK the night of the 4th fire broke out
jn-- the lumber district of Menominee,
MIcf.,- ana before it was extinguished
had D6rned over 6,oO0, 900 feet of valuable
lumber in the yards and on the docks.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance. $22, 900.
On the 9th Judge Kumler sentenced
: -Chas. Doll, ex- member of the Board Of
Public Works of Cincinnati, to two years
in the penitentiary upon conviction of
having misapplied city funds in the pur-
chase of lot of horses in Illinois for the
city's use.
OK the night of the 5th Alfred Janicke,
aged twenty. five, son of wealthy New
York jeweler, shot hi nself dead as he
was entering police headquarters in
charge of detectives. He had led dis
sipated life, and finally stole someljewelry
from man who gave him employment
after he had ibeen cast of by his parents.
His arrest and suicide resulted.
ARTHUR H. SMELL, acting paying teller
of the Fulton Bank, Brooklyn, was ar
rested on the 9th. He was short in his ac-
counts to the amount of $4,000
NINE persons have been arrested on a
charge of being implicated in the murder
of John Kinsella, near Arthlow, Ireland.
Kinsella was killed while resisting emer-
gency men attempting to seize cattle.
A. SELLER, of Cleveland, o.. and West
ern agent for Reeve, Osborn g. Co, tea
merchants, New York, was arrested in
Marion, O., on the 9Th, and taken to
Cleveland to answer to q charge of ad-
ministering poison to his wife.
MR.. M. DoNNELLY, an expressman n
Dubuque, Ia, was killed on the 9th by his
horse running away. In jumping off, he
was thrown back under the wagon, the
wheels passing over his neck. He lived a
few hours.
Two men, named James Delaney and
Dennis O'Shea, were struck by an incom-
ing train on the Union Pacific road at
Omaha, Neb., on the 9th, and instantly
killed. They were each in buggy, and
were running a race on their return from
the funeral of Patrick O'Shea, who died
in the Joliet Ill.) pententary October 4.
A FIRE broke out on the 9th in Ephraim
How,s distillery in New York. The build
ing is three stories high, and of brick, and
was filed with valuable spirits. The whole
stock was destroyed, despite the efforts of
the firemen to save it, and within an hour
the distillery was in ashes. The loss on
the building is $4,000, and on spirits
$150,000.
On the Sth Silas Hampton and Seaborn
Green, Indians, were hanged for murder
at Fort Smith, Ark.
FRANK RorH, of Cleveland, was convicted
at Wooster, o., on the 7th, of murder in
the first degree for killing his wife. The
murder was committed last spring, while
Roth and his wife were visiting in Woos-
ter, and was prompted by jealousy.
ON the 7th A. w. Quinn, late of the
quartermaster's department, United
States army, committed suicide at Man
chester, N. H., by hanging. His death is
attributed to melancholia consequent upon
the death of his wife.
On the night of the 9th John NJ. Keim, a
wealthy farmer of Lobachsville, Pa, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head. Deceased was indicted at the last
term of court on charge of defrauding a
bank out of 500, and it Is supposed that
trouble led him to take his life..
A DWELLING house located in block
bounded by Michigan, Ontario, Locust and
Lagrange streets, Toledo, o., was recently
vacated, and new tenants moved into the
dwelling. While cistern was being
cleaned out on the 7th, 1t was found to
contain the bodies of thirteen infants. The
house was formerly occupied by mid
wife, who has been arrested.
CONFIDENCE men are reported fleeing
farmers in the Hudson river and inland
tier Of counties in New York. The vic
Tins are induced to put their names ito an
order for samples of grain" The paper
generally comes back through an innocent
holder, in the shape of promisory note.